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The planned site off the coast of Morro Bay could be California’s first large-scale floating wind farm, the partners claimed.

It would consist of about 100 turbines installed on floating foundations and would have nameplate capacities of more than 6MW, Trident stated.

The Morro Bay project would initially have a total capacity of 650MW, before being expanded to 1GW.

The partners’ initial focus will be to obtain a site lease from seabed landlord, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), they stated.

Trident Winds submitted an unsolicited lease request to BOEM in January 2016, stating its intent to lease the required site area, situated more than 48 kilometres from the shore. BOEM is expected to return a decision on whether to award a licence this year.